Search CityCat to find books, e-books, disks and more. There are many ways to search, such as Title, Author and Keyword.

Books in the library are organized by Call Number according to the Library of Congress classification system which groups items by subject, so you can often simply browse the shelves. See the table below for examples of Call Numbers in the left column.

Many ESL materials are included in our READ collections, which combine Basic Skills reading materials with items written especially for ESL students. The right column of the table below links you to lists of what is in each READ collection.

Use databases for specialized and the most up-to-date information, especially academic (scholarly) sources that are not available for free on the Web. See the Articles & Databases page for a full list of databases available.

Web Sites

Use Web sites for government information, statistics, and current events. It's very important to carefully evaluate Web sites for accuracy, currency, bias and credibility.